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adult diarrhea case.........
a. metabolic acidosisi
b.metabolic alkalosis
Metabolic acidosis, you lose K+ and HCO3-. For vomiting, you get metabolic alkalosis.
also would like to add that it also leads to Cl apsorbtion leading to hypecholaraemia so the type of anion gap is non anion gap metabolic acidosis